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Reply #40 - Sep 29th, 2010 at 11:11pm
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db wrote on Sep 29th, 2010 at 7:15am:
Today's thing.

I've seen a number of these at similar locations and have always wondered how they inserted them and how long is that eyebolt or whatever it's called?  Sometimes the stuff humans did/do simply amazes me. I'm hoping this is one that someone can easily educate me on. Brownie points will be awarded if you can explain how they were used and/or why there is no rust to be seen?



db,

As pajeff says, just check out the story & the pic in this BWJ issue.   Same danged ring at the Conk campsite, I'm guessing.

As written in the story, they were once used to tether the fabled and (allegedly) extinct Jackfish... which, of course, were puny suckers compared to pollyhumpers and some other fish I've heard tell about on QJ.  PJ catches & releases equivalent-sized fish regularly.

Anyway YOUR pic IS the BWJ pic minus the people & plus some flotsam & jetsam in the water.

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Re: Picture of the day - POD (cont. 16)
Reply #41 - Sep 29th, 2010 at 11:20pm
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Is that particular one on the Q end of the Beaverhouse-Q portage?
  
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Re: Picture of the day - POD (cont. 16)
Reply #42 - Sep 30th, 2010 at 12:11am
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these rings were used more for the fur trade than logging.  It was something that trappers used to anchor their traps.  I have no proof of this - it's just a guess to possibly win the brownie points.  I need them.
  
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Re: Picture of the day - POD (cont. 16)
Reply #43 - Sep 30th, 2010 at 2:39am
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PhantomJug wrote on Sep 30th, 2010 at 12:11am:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these rings were used more for the fur trade than logging.  It was something that trappers used to anchor their traps.

Hmmmm.  Based on the ones I've seen, I guess they didn't want T-rex running off with the traps!   Grin

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Re: Picture of the day - POD (cont. 16)
Reply #44 - Sep 30th, 2010 at 3:29am
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Is that particular one on the Q end of the Beaverhouse-Q portage?


I'm guessing Conk Lake.
  
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Re: Picture of the day - POD (cont. 16)
Reply #45 - Sep 30th, 2010 at 5:51am
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Ummmm, budget constraints necessitated letting my BWJ subscription lapse with the Summer issue. (Anyone interested in a nearly complete set of back issues?)

I'm thinking it had something to do with moving barges or clumps of logs maybe??? I didn't look for wear patterns beyond the flat top that's not mushroomed at all. Anyone feel like offering a short description for that POD?

Trapping still goes on up there but.... Yesterday's photo is indeed from Conk's outflow looking beyond the takeout. Fifty points are awarded to O_S!  (He could have had some help though.)

Today's is from -- anyone?

Seeing logging stuff up there always humbles me. I just shake my head and can't even imagine what that life might have been like.
  
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Reply #46 - Sep 30th, 2010 at 10:45am
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Anyway, they were used to boom logs before ice out.
  
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Reply #47 - Sep 30th, 2010 at 12:54pm
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"Today's is from -- anyone?"


houseboat remnants on Bentpine Creek ?
  
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Re: Picture of the day - POD (cont. 16)
Reply #48 - Sep 30th, 2010 at 4:20pm
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The ring?

It's mine. Or rather, my group's.

There's one on the other side of the lake as well. See, we were running a trotline ...

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Re: Picture of the day - POD (cont. 16)
Reply #49 - Oct 1st, 2010 at 1:44am
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As far as yesterday's pic:

My electrochemistry is a little rusty (pun intended), but I have a few tentative ideas.
1) Depending on the rock, it could create a high pH environment. The oxidation of iron requires H+ ions. High pH = low H+ ion concentration and therefore it's a good rust inhibitor.
2) Again, depending on the rock, there may be another mineral with a more positive reduction potential acting as a sacrificial electrode - much like the one in a water heater.

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